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APPucAHoN HLED NOV. 18, 1912. RENEWED BUNE 26. 1918.

Patented Jan. 21,1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK BENNETT, 0Fv RAVENSWOOD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WALKER & BENNETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

CAR-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 191$).

Application filed November 18, 1912, Serial No. 732,094. Renewed June 26, 1918. Serial No. 242.093.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, F-nnonarox BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ravenswood in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car-seats of the walk-over reversible-back type. v

The object of the invention is to so mount the back on the back standards, that the back will begin to move with a positive movement upon the initial movement of the standards,

7 instead of there being a movement first of the standards and then a final reversing movement of the back, as in knownconstructions. This makes possible, the reversing of the back, without manual force exerted for other purposes than for shifting the back from one side to the other.

A'further'object of the invention is to so construct the shifting mechanism, that the strain upon the parts will be mainly in the direction oftheir lengths, rather than breaking or torsional transverse strains.

Other objects of the invention which have to do with durability, simplicity and ease I ofoperation, will become apparent in the description.

Referring to the drawings- Figure 1 1s a transverse vertical section of acar seat constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail section taken about on line m-a: of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the lock plates.

Fig. 4 is-a vertical section showing the back of my car seat in middle position in the course of being shifted, with the front plate removed therefrom;

Fi 5 is a section taken along the line 5-5 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 6 is a cross section taken along the line 6-6 of Fig. 4

:.:.I i11 b understood that the parts shown,

3 with the exception of the pedestal, are duplicated on'ea'ch side of the seat.

; Referring to designates"thepedestalhavlng the usual arms 2, to which are attached-by suitable clips, the tie-rods-3l Rigidly' supported ad acent to the pedestals, .wheret.wo. pedestals are emloyed, are plates 4. In case where only one the drawings, the numeral 1,

bolts 22 mounted'onthe lower portions 01 pedestal is employed, it will be understood that one plate will be rigidly supported ad- Lacent to the aisle pedestal and the other may e securely attached to the side of the cur.

Each plate is provided with a pocket 5 formed by a flanged oil-set plate 5. The numeral 6 indicates one ofthe buck-stainlards which are preferably hollow. being composed of two flanged sections secured t0 gether in any suitable manner. Each standard is provided with a short stud or pin 7, suitably journalcd in the plates -i' and upon these studs or pivots the back standards are adapted to rock back and forth in shifting the seat and back.

The numeral 8 indicatcs one of the operating levers. These levers are preferably inclosed within the hollow side arms and are provided near the lower end with a stud or pin 10 operative in closed vertical slots 11 made in the pocket plates 5'. Each operating lever is also provided with a short. stud or pin 12 operative in the horizontal curved slot 13 in the pocket plate and each of said levers is provided with a closed slot 14 in which a pin 14 carried by each side standard is adapted to operate The operating levers project upwardly to a point near the upper ends of the back standards and carry at their upper ends studs 15 which work in curved slots 16 in the upper ends of the standards. Pivoted to the back-standard 6 as indicated at 17, are brackcts 18 to which the back is rigidly secured, thus when the back is attached to the bracket, it is capable of a rotary or reversing movement upon the back-standard. The standards are extended below their pivots 7 and have thcirlowcr ends connected by a rod 19 which works in the recesses 20 in lock-plates 21, which lockplates are, as shown best in Fig. .2. open at their bottoms and are provided with stops 21, the purpose of which will presently be.- come apparent. These plates are rigidly supported on thetic-rods 3, being provided with engaging ends .22. which embrace said tie-rods, so that any oscillating tendency on the art of tne lock-plates will be prevented and a rigid construction produced.

'The numeral 23"dcsignates the foot-rest .which comprises a cross-bar 24 and two side arms 25. vThe foot rest is pivoted upon the lock' plates 21-, and each arm of the rest is provided with an elongated slot 26, at its upper end, through which the connecting rod 19 extends. The numeral 27 designates one of the rockers, upon which the seat is carried. These rockers, of which there are two, are provided with downwardly extending ears 28, having vertical slots 29 therein, for the passage of the rod 19, whereby a loose pivotal connection is established between the back-standards, rockers and foot-rest, and whereby the foot-rest and seat are shifted together.

In operation, force is applied to the top of the back, .which will obviously have a tendency to both shift the back and rotate it or reverse it upon the back-standards. The reversing movement of the back from the position it occupies as shown in the draw- ,ings, will cause the operating levers to be drawn downwardly and during the movement of the whole back, both in shifting and reversing, will cause the pins or studs 10, 12, Hand-15 to move to the opposite ends of I their respective slots, so that by the time the whole seat is shifted and reversed, all of therpins, with the exception of the pins 10 30.. v the stops 21 and cause it to travel through and 14, will occupy the opposite ends of their respective slots. During this movement, the back-standards, swinging upon their pivots, will swing the rod 19 from beneath one of the recesses 20 in the lock-plates 21, and through the pivotal connections between the rockers, back-standards and foot-rest, the rockers and foot-rest will be shifted to a position opposite that they now occupy, bringing the rod 19 under the opposite stop 21' in which osition the seat will be shifted, and the back reversed from, the position shown. By reason of the slightly downturned position of the stops 21, it will be impossible to operate the parts by any pressure applied accidentally to the foot-rest as it will be noted that any pressure applied to the bottom of the foot-rest will simply bring the rod 19 with greater force against the stops 21', it being apparent that the only way to shift and reverse the back, is to rock it upon its pivot 7, the movement of the rod 19 being concentric with the pivot 7. Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A car seat, having in combination a side plate,'a back-standard rockably pivoted with relation to said side plate, an operating lever carried by the. back-standard and slidable longitudinally with relation thereto,

means for bringing about the relative longi I '-tudinalmovement between the operating lever and the back-standard by the movement-of the back-standard, consisting of a:

stud in said'operating lever and a curved slot in. said side plate, and an operative connection between the operating lever and the seat-back whereby the seat-back is reversed in passing from one extreme position to the other.

2. A car seat, having in combination a side plate, a back-standard rockably pivoted with relation to the side plate, an operating lever carried by the back-standard and movable longitudinally and also rockably with relation thereto, a locking plate provided with oppositely disposed locking recesses, and a protruding rod carried by the backstandard and adapted to detachably engage either recess to hold said back-standard in its moved position. Y

3. A car seat, having in combination, a side plate, having an open pocket, a' hollow back-standard rockably pivoted to the side plate and movable in said pocket, anopcrating lever inclosed within said backstandard and slidable longitudinally with relation thereto, a curved slot carried by the 'side plate co-acting with a stud carried by the operating lever, whereby the operating lever is longitudinallymoved with relation to the back-standard duringthe movement of said back-standard, and an operative connection between the operating leverand the seat back, whereby the seat backis reversed in passing from one extreme position to the other, a locking plate providedwith oppositely disposed locking recesses, and means carried by the back-standard and adapted to detachably engage either recess tohold said back-standard in its moved position.

4:. A car seat, having in combination, a side plate, a back-standard rockably pivoted with relation to said side-plate, an operating lever carried by the back standard and movable longitudinally and'roekablywith relation thereto, means for positively bringing about the longitudinal and rockable movement of the operating lever by themovement of the back-standard consisting of a stud in said operating lever-and a .curved slot in said side plate, and a slidingpivotal engagement between the lower end of the operating lever and saidside plate, and an FREDERIC Witnesses: I L

TITIAN W. JOHNSON, 4 Joism J. Donovan.

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